From the archives
Today’s story marks the end of a series of historical holiday stories from the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen news archives. This article is from Jan. 20, 1955.
Those Tucson kids who lugged about 10,000 Christmas trees to various tree-burning sites after the holidays will get their reward Saturday, when the annual Christmas tree burning show is scheduled at the University of Arizona auditorium.
Two shows, consisting of a series of movies, will be given, one at 1:30 p.m. and another at 3:30 p.m. Holders of blue tickets go to the first program, and those with yellow tickets to the second.
Saturday’s films, like the tree-burning project, are sponsored by the Tucson public schools, the mayor’s Citizen’s Fire Prevention Committee and the fire departments in and around the city.
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Boys and girls who brought three or more trees to the several tree-burning sites are guests of the sponsoring organizations at the show. The nearly 10,000 trees brought in this year represented about a 40 percent increase from last year.
